The George Reed Most Outstanding Player Award is an award given annually to the best player in the Canadian Football League. The two nominees for the award are the Terry Evanshen Trophy winner from the East Division, and the Jeff Nicklin Memorial Trophy winner from the West Division. The winner of the award is chosen by the Football Reporters of Canada.

The award was created in 1953 as the Schenley Award, named after Schenley Distillers Corporation, to honour the most outstanding player in Canadian Rugby Union, one of the forerunner leagues of the CFL; Schenley ended its sponsorship of the awards in 1988, and the awards have been unsponsored since. Broadcasters Ernie Calcutt, John Badham and Pierre Dufault were regular presenters of the Schenley Award.

CFL's Most Outstanding Player Award winners

CFL's Most Outstanding Player Award runners up

Note: Prior to 1973 the runner up for this award was not the Jeff Russel Memorial Trophy or Jeff Nicklin Memorial Trophy winners. Finalists were first announced in 1953 and during the first years there were multiple runners-up.

• 1972 – Mack Herron (RB), Winnipeg Blue Bombers

• 1971 – Leon McQuay (RB), Toronto Argonauts

• 1970 – Tommy Joe Coffey (WR), Hamilton Tiger-Cats

• 1969 – George Reed (RB), Saskatchewan Roughriders

• 1968 – George Reed (RB), Saskatchewan Roughriders

• 1967 – Tommy Joe Coffey (WR), Hamilton Tiger-Cats

• 1966 – Ron Lancaster (QB), Saskatchewan Roughriders

• 1965 – Garney Henley (DB), Hamilton Tiger-Cats

• 1964 – Dick Shatto (RB), Toronto Argonauts

• 1963 – Joe Kapp (QB), BC Lions

• 1962 – Tommy Joe Coffey (WR), Edmonton Eskimos

• 1961 – Jackie Parker (QB), Edmonton Eskimos

• 1960 – Cookie Gilchrist (RB), Toronto Argonauts

• 1959 – Bernie Faloney (QB), Hamilton Tiger-Cats

• 1958 – Dick Shatto (RB), Toronto Argonauts

• 1957 – Hal Patterson (OE/DB), Montreal Alouettes

• 1956 – Jackie Parker (QB), Edmonton Eskimos

• 1955 – Jackie Parker, Edmonton; Dick Shatto, Toronto; Ken Carpenter, Saskatchewan

• 1954 – Rollie Miles, Edmonton and Alex Webster, Montreal

• 1953 – Tex Coulter, Montreal; John Henry Johnson, Calgary, Gene Roberts, Ottawa

All-time records

See also

• Jeff Nicklin Memorial Trophy

• Terry Evanshen Trophy

• Jeff Russel Memorial Trophy

References